Jag var på religionsseminarie idag om filosofen Slavoj Zizek. Han jobbar med liknande frågor som
Zizek lyfter speciellt fram Paulus som möjligheten att leva i ett pågående revolutionärt tillstånd. Paulus ger upp sitt jobb, sin gemenskap och sin lära när han blir kristen. Han blir gång på gång fängslad och använder fångenskapen för att utmana.
En sammanfattning av Zizeks materialistiska teologi:
“One chapter expands on his recent work on Christianity. For Zizek, part of Christianity’s “subversive core” is the idea of Christian love: “the excessive care for the beloved, a ‘biased’ commitment which disturbs the balance” of normal reality. The space for this love is opened up by the believer’s act of “unplugging” from all social ties in order to be completely faithful to Christ. For Zizek,
“Within this scheme, conscious free choice does not directly “cause” human action in a straightforward way. Instead, free choice is first of all a negative move of refusal, because only the refusal to continue along in the chain of instinctual reactions opens up space for other possibilities. Far from being the pinnacle of evolution, then, humanity becomes the ultimate anti-adaptive species, with consciousness opening the way for the expenditure of huge amounts of energy on pursuits—such as language, art, and above all, non-procreative sex—that have nothing to do with “survival of the fittest.” Thus, Zizek is proposing a model of human freedom that avoids both pure mechanical determinism and the illusion of pure Promethean self-creation, where humanity creates itself by continually turning the given reality toward surprising new ends. As with his analysis of Christianity, this vision also has a political punch: We are most human when we refuse to act according to a supposed historical necessity or biological laws.”
Från http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2625/
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